Advances in Water Pollution Research. Proceedings of the by S. H. Jenkins

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Third International Conf. on Wat. Poll. Research, Section I, Paper No. 11, Munich. THE QUANTITATIVE RELATION OF BACTERIA AND CILIATES TO WATER POLLUTION V E R A STRASKRABOVÄ and MILOS LEGNER Hydrobiological Laboratory, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Vltavskâ 17, Praha 5, CSSR there are two ways in which there lationship between aquatic organisms and water pollution can be studied. One method attempts to classify waters according to the amount of pollution on a scale of degrees which are defined by a complex of various chemical and biological data.

It would seem that higher concentrations of waste would allow greater growths of bottom organisms, and, thus, result in a larger value of B. If carried to its logical conclusion, equation (14) would predict that the rate of deoxygenation would approach infinity as the concen­ tration of water approached zero. This is obviously contrary to fact, as the rate of deoxygenation actually approaches zero as the concentration of waste approaches zero. If it is assumed that y Co 51 52 P. A. KRENKEL and E.

D. from the flowing water, such as flocculation and sedimentation, that are not accounted for in the model. 2 Immediately upon waste addition, the small concentration of bacteria cannot exert a high oxygen demand, but the demand increases as the bacteria multiply in response to the higher food supply. The oxygen demand will again decrease as the bacteria die away after the food is exhausted. D. "reaction" can be thought of as a pseudo-second-order reaction. The utilization of oxygen is proportional to the bacterial population, in the growth phase, but the population level is indirectly controlled by the amount of food available to the bacteria.